Alarm system supervisory by zone

A method, comprising:

• receiving an assignment of a plurality of alarm sensors to different ones of a plurality of supervisory zones;
• receiving a specified polling rate for each of the supervisory zones;
• monitoring for a status signal from each of the alarm sensors;
• and
• triggering a specified response in response to determining that the status signal was not received from any one of the alarm sensors at the specified polling rate for the assigned supervisory zone.

An alarm control panel, comprising:

• a processor;
• a wireless transceiver interoperably coupled to the processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium interoperably coupled to the processor and storing instructions for execution by the processor, the instructions instructing the processor to perform operations comprising:
• receive an assignment of a plurality of alarm sensors to different ones of a plurality of supervisory zones;
• receive a specified polling rate for each of the supervisory zones, wherein the specified polling rate of one supervisory zone is different from the specified polling rate of another supervisory zone;
• monitor, via the wireless transceiver, for a status signal from each of the plurality of alarm sensors;
• and
• cause specified response in response to determining that a status signal was not received from any one of the plurality of alarm sensors at the specified polling rate for the assigned supervisory zone.